The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre

The greatest true espionage story of the Cold War

Very good condition – minor edge wear, spine uncreased

Oleg Gordievsky was the KGB's man in London, rising through the ranks to become the crown jewel of British intelligence: a top Soviet official secretly working for MI6 from deep inside enemy lines. For years he fed British and American intelligence a stream of priceless secrets, helping shape the final act of the Cold War, until suspicion closed in and Gordievsky found himself in a desperate race to escape Moscow before his own side could catch him. Ben Macintyre reconstructs this astonishing true story with the pace and tension of a thriller, drawing on unprecedented access to Gordievsky himself and the intelligence officers on both sides who lived through it. Praised by John le Carré as the best true spy story he had ever read, The Spy and the Traitor is a gripping, meticulously researched account of loyalty, betrayal and survival at the height of the Cold War.